[kobebryant168]

Just curious guys, What is your age range when you have passed all the exams?

I feel like, I’m so behind to write this exam at this stage of my life

[whitesoxfancpa]

I'm 25 and I'm married to the TV, so studying became a nuisance on the first seven Sundays of this football season.

AUD 96 FAR 95 REG 94 BEC 88

[FARbehind]

whitesox,

you've been watching too much tv!!! your scores are going down! JK

I thought you guys would be impressed with us, “old” folks and you are admiring the young ones!!! JK

It would be interesting to know the national origin of everybody to make a racial/national profile of the cpa candidates… JK

aud,bec,reg-passed
far-->75 Done!!!!!
ethics-100

[jeff]

From interacting with thousands of candidates, the avg CPA Exam candidate age is 25-28, just shooting from the hip.

[Anonymous]

I will really skew the numbers, I started at 48 finished at 49. Married, 6 kids, full time job, very supported wife. BS (1990) Information System Management, MS (2009) in Accounting and Information Technology. I am Retired U.S. Army and the CPA was a necessity for this second career of mine in governmental accounting working for the Department of Defense. So it is never to late to do the CPA exam.

[PSU06]

I am 32. Married 14 years (to a very supportive husband!). Bachelor's degree. Work full-time. Mom to 3 children ages 13, 12, and 6. So thankful to be finished with the exam!

FAR - 7/7/10 - 94
BEC - 7/24/10 - 77
AUD - 8/17/10 - 97
REG - 8/31/10 - 80

[Liz317]

So I'm 24. So I guess group me in with the “average.” BS in Math, MS in Accounting. I'm not married, I don't have any kids, and I don't have a life until after this thing is passed haha!

FAR - 92 --- AUD - 87 --- REG - 80 --- BEC - 87
A licensed CPA in Louisiana!!!

Dear CPA Exam, You are a beast. But you WILL be defeated!

[kobebryant168]

Haha, thanks guys for supporting this topic

Liz317, same happening here…no life candidate here

and wow, I see a lot of ladies here

Good luck everyone and hopefully we can haf more people respond so that we can really have a rough idea what the avg is

Cheers

[Jan_in_WI]

Another nontraditional here . . . 38 years old, married with 2 kids and a full-time job. I have a B.S. in Public Accounting and an M.B.A. with an accounting emphasis.

FAR - 94 (7/10)
AUD - 99 (8/20)
REG - 99 (10/15)
BEC - 88 (11/20)

[Anonymous]

First attempt I was 23 back on the paper exam.

This round I started at 31 and finished 6 months later at 32.

[hazeyCPA]

im 22, i finished masters in accounting in august, but not starting with big 4 until new years so i had time to pound out last 2 sections (waiting for reg) before i started

Undergrad - May 2010; Masters - August 2010
NY Candidate, Becker, Start w/ Big 4 in January
AUD (4/15)-91; FAR (7/26)-85; BEC (8/28)–87; REG (11/3)– 92

[italianCPA]

I'm 34, Bachelor and MBA from Europe, came to the US at 26, 8 years of experience as Financial Controller/CFO in industry, unemployed since last June so I finally decided to take the exam since I remember being passed on for jobs in the past because I wasn't a CPA. Hopefully by Thanksgiving I will have my REG score, hopefully the last one.

FAR - 7/26/10 - 95
AUD - 8/10/10 - 88
BEC - 8/31/10 - 88
REG - 10/15/10 - 95

[tableleg]

Thought I would blow the curve. I am in my 50's. I got laid off from a job I thought I would have till retirement. When I talked to the state board of accountancy, they said they had lots of older people who are starting to sit for the exam because of the economy.

I hope to finish mid 2011 and go back to work.

I do have a question. Do you think CPA firms tend not to hire older workers? Will older workers have a tougher time making it in a CPA firm?

[kobebryant168]

tableleg, if I were you, I would open my own firm after passing all the exam

since you have many years work experience, getting a license should be pretty easy

I think you can find some partners to open up a firm and be a boss! hire yourself!

[FARbehind]

As far as I know CPA firms don't pay well and this is why prefer hiring younger workers right out of school. Also, they work them long hours. Both not good for a 50+ person. I would try industries.

aud,bec,reg-passed
far-->75 Done!!!!!
ethics-100

[HazeEastwood]

I'm 32, no kids, no wife Plant Controller at a manufacturing plant in Atlanta. I have a undergrad in accounting & a Masters in Economics (FSU). I had absolutely no intensions on taking the CPA until I was challenged by a former coworker and from reading statistics.

FAR-81
BEC-84
AUD-91
REG-89

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